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Transformation and Continuities in Urban Struggles

Urban Studies, 2012
Spain was one of the countries at the heart of the work of Manuel Castells due to its history of urban struggles and labour–urban based alliances. It formed one of the key examples of city movements and the democratisation of urban spaces. The 1960s and 1970s were seen to throw up a range of new types of urban mobilisation and engagement—in part based
Miguel MartíNez Lucio, Heather Connolly   +1 more
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Struggles in Urban Space

Urban Affairs Review, 1996
The author compares the hierarchical variety of businesses that struggle over downtown urban space with the official agencies that regulate that space in two sister cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. For each city, the conflict is analyzed, as is the diversity of businesses and their public presentations.
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14 Urban Struggles and Their Political Consequences

1990
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Engineering, Urbanism and the Struggle for Street Design

Journal of Urban Design, 2005
The making and upkeep of streets is a central task of urban design. In a critical review of the relation between urban design and highway engineering, the paper distinguishes two paradigms: on one side, the hierarchical model, pervasive and institutionally entrenched through design standards and traffic management; on the other, an alternative non ...
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Dwelling in an Urban Wasteland: Struggles for Resources

2021
Wastelands in a dense urban context form temporary residual spaces including several resources. In Northern Paris, urban wastelands are used by inhabitants for different purposes: gardens, farms and settlements without a legal status, as well as business transactions in the gray economy. These inhabitants’ temporary uses transform urban wastelands into
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